Sea breeze (cocktail) explained

Iba:yes
Sourcelink:sea-breeze
Sea breeze
Type:mixed
Vodka:yes
Served:rocks
Garnish:lime slice
Drinkware:highball
Ingredients:
Prep:Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with lime wedge.

A sea breeze is a cocktail containing vodka with cranberry juice and grapefruit juice.[1] The cocktail is usually consumed during summer months. The drink may be shaken in order to create a foamy surface.[1] It is considered an IBA Official Cocktail.[1]

The drink follows the classic cocktail principle of balancing strong (alcohol) with weak (fruit juice) and sweet and sour.[1] [2]

A bay breeze, or a Hawaiian sea breeze, is similar to a sea breeze except for the substitution of pineapple juice for grapefruit juice.[2] [3] It is also closely related to the Cape Codder (which lacks the grapefruit juice) and the Salty Dog (which lacks the cranberry juice and is made with a salted rim).[4]

History

The cocktail was born in the late 1920s, but the recipe was different from the one used today, as gin and grenadine were used in the original sea breeze.[5] This was near the end of the Prohibition era. In the 1930s, a sea breeze had gin, apricot brandy, grenadine, and lemon juice.[6] Later, a Sea Breeze recipe would contain vodka, dry vermouth, Galliano, and blue Curaçao.[6]

In the 1930s, a cranberry growers' cooperative evolved into Ocean Spray, which promoted cranberry juice as a mixer with alcohol, first with gin and later with vodka.[4] Ocean Spray created the Red Devil, later called the harpoon or Cape Codder, in 1945,[7] and its descendants such as the greyhound, the salty dog, the bay breeze, and the sea breeze were later created.[4] Starting in the 1960s, the breeze drinks were sporadically in the top ten most popular mixed drinks.[4]

According to some, the sea breeze, along with the Cape Codder and bay breeze, did not become very popular until the 1970s.[8] This was because in 1959, the U.S. Department of Health stated that cranberry crops were tainted with toxic herbicides, collapsing the cranberry industry.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seabreeze - Cocktails - Flavour Essences . Still Spirits . 13 June 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110828023918/http://stillspirits.com/au/flavour-essences/cocktails/seabreeze.html . 28 August 2011 . dmy-all .
  2. Web site: Eatoutzone . Cocktails with Vodka . 8 November 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080704065346/http://www.eatoutzone.com/Cocktail_with_Vodka.htm#Sea_Breeze . 4 July 2008 . dmy-all .
  3. Book: Harvard Student Agencies. The official Harvard Student Agencies bartending course. 2000. Macmillan. 978-0-312-25286-1. 47.
  4. Book: Dale DeGroff. The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks. 2008. Random House Digital, Inc.. 978-0-307-40573-9. 332.
  5. Web site: Cocktail Idea . Sea breeze cocktail recipe . 8 November 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071021010919/http://cocktail.idea.hu/sea-breeze . 21 October 2007 . dmy-all .
  6. Book: Salvatore Calabrese. Classic Cocktails. 2006. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. 978-1-4027-3910-1. 158–.
  7. "With cranberry juice he adds vodka and a dash of fresh lime and comes up with a "Red Devil Cocktail."" (Ocean Spray's Cranberry Cooperative News: Volumes 6-10 by Cranberry Canners, Inc., 1945)
  8. Book: Cheryl Charming. Susan Bourgoin. Knack Bartending Basics: More Than 400 Classic and Contemporary Cocktails for Any Occasion. 2009. Globe Pequot. 978-1-59921-504-4. 123.